Embattled actor Charlie Sheen is #winning support from at least one of his former lovers.
Natalie Kenly, a former marijuana magazine model who shacked up with the “Two and a Half Men” star the same year he says he was diagnosed with HIV, defended Sheen’s honor amid flak he has received this week from other ex-“goddesses.”
“I knew Charlie as the man, and not the myth or the legend,” Kenly told Entertainment Tonight on Thursday. “Charlie didn’t pay me to keep quiet about his HIV diagnosis or anything else.”
She has since been tested several times, she said, and doesn’t think she was around Sheen when he contracted HIV or received the diagnosis in 2011.
Kenly directly addressed one of Sheen’s other paramours, former porn star Bree Olson, who recently accused the actor of lying to sexual partners about his HIV status.
“I can definitely say that my recollections at the time are greatly different than the ones that she has mentioned,” Kenly said. “The industry that Bree is in, this is devastating to her career — I think that’s why she’s so angry.”
In a bombshell “Today” show interview Tuesday, Sheen revealed he had been diagnosed HIV positive four years ago, maintaining that the virus was “undetectable” in his bloodstream and that he had informed all sexual partners following the diagnosis.
“He never said anything to me,” a furious Olson told Howard Stern hours later. “I was his girlfriend. I lived with him. We had sex almost every day for a year.”
Sheen’s rep later fired back, claiming the 50-year-old actor hadn’t informed Olson because he wasn’t HIV positive while he was with her.
Olson wasn’t the only one of Sheen’s former consorts blindsided by the news, as attorney Gloria Allred confirmed Wednesday that many of them have approached her to discuss their rights.
“This is terrifying,” one alleged victim, who said she had sex twice with Sheen in 2012 without knowledge of his illness, told the Daily News Wednesday.
The actor has even taken heat from a woman he only bedded onscreen, “Two and a Half Men” guest star Jenny McCarthy.
“If I have to be up-front about a herpe, how could you not be up-front about HIV?” the actress said on her SiriusXM radio show Wednesday, decrying a Hollywood gender double standard.